Dead Job Still In DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS
(Doc ID 2019899.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 04, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

While querying DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS and V$SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS, there is a job with no session ID and no process ID running with a large elapsed time. Actually this job is not really running. The problem is that , it can't be stopped using DBMS_SCHEDULER.STOP_JOB. It throws below error :